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Up now on my eBay! Classic manga comic from 2000! Alice in Lostworld 4 by Japanese character designer Shuzilow Ha, artist for the Solty Rei anime series! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!
Mark Zuckerberg offered to let Chinese premier Xi Jinping name his firstborn (seriously), Apple purged the Chinese App Store of privacy tools at the request of the politburo; Google secretly built a censoring search-engine for use in China,
but America’s Big Tech companies are sounding the alarm that they will
no longer be able to promote America’s global dominance if any of the US
Big Tech breakup plans are executed.
Which is hilarious, because breaking up monopolies makes industries stronger,
not weaker: the breakup of Standard Oil spun off companies like Exxon
and Chevron, each as big or bigger than Standard was when it was split
up. AT&T’s breakup gave us Verizon, Qwest, and a host of other
telcos. Monopolies suppress growth by clobbering companies with
innovative ideas in order to preserve the status quo.
By contrast, Japan encouraged and nurtured its monopolies, and lost its
substantial tech lead to become an also-ran in the global tech
marketplace
